That statement is very similar to what Obama said at a sold-out, $1,250-per-head fundraising dinner with prominent gay and lesbian activists in New York last week, the Associated Press reports. To boil it down, Obama is basically saying he supports the rights of gay people, while avoiding answering how he feels about gay marriage specifically by shifting the responsibility for it to "the states."

the recent approval of the anti-marriage initiative for public vote in North Carolina passed with help from democrats in the NC house. In Maryland and Rhode Island, even though the legislatures are overwhelmingly democratic, they still blocked marriage equality efforts this year.

Homophobia is bipartisan. And DOMA passed back then with heavy democratic support.

Not only voted to kill marriage equality in 2010, but he and his fellow candidates launched a robocall campaign bragging about their opposition to gay rights.

Add to that his support for Christie's union busting and pulling NJ out of the greenhouse gas initiative and I have a very hard time justifying even the thought of pushing the button for him in November.

And for 2012, I think we need to start lining up and putting people in place to primary every anti-gay Democratic congressperson.

Ruben Diaz, Sr., a Democratic member of the NY state Senate. He was a very vocal opponent to the marriage equality bill there. He helped to derail its passage in 2009, and was the sole Democrat voting against the bill when it finally passed in 2011. Not satisfied with voting alone, he held many high profile public events and fundraisers in an effort to prevent marriage equality in his state.

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